A man accused of fatally shooting his 70-year-old father, a Manhattan hedge-fund founder, has been indicted on a new charge of criminal possession of forgery devices, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The new indictment presented in court against 30-year-old Thomas Gilbert Jr. follows the discovery of a credit card skimmer, a device often used in financial fraud, and 21 blank credit cards during a police search of his Chelsea apartment after the Jan. 4 killing of his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr. Read More »

A New York City police officer outside the Project Renewal homeless shelter in the Bronx, N.Y., on April 29. The shelter’s director, Ana Charle, was abducted and shot dead after she left the shelter on April 27.

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A Bronx man charged with killing the manager at a homeless shelter where he used to stay pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Bronx Supreme Court on Tuesday.

West Spruill, 39 years old, is accused of killing Ana Charle, 36, on the evening of April 27, after waiting for her by the Project Renewal homeless shelter, where she worked in the Bronx. Read More »

Christopher Duran pictured when he was 13. The 14-year-old was shot and killed outside his home in the Morrisania section of the Bronx on Friday. A cousin said he was on his way to school. New York City police are investigating.

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A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed in the Morrisania section of the Bronx on Friday morning after he was confronted by a gunman police believe knew him, authorities said.

Relatives and police identified the victim as Christopher Duran, who lived with his family on Sheridan Avenue. Read More »

After more than 10 weeks of testimony, the fate of a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz more than three decades ago was placed in jurors’ hands Wednesday. A jury of seven men and five women began their deliberations shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday in the trial of Pedro Hernandez, accused of kidnapping and killing the first-grader in May 1979. Read More »

Bruce Frumkin, forensic psychologist departs court after testifying in the Etan Patz murder case in New York on Thursday.

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Attorneys for the man accused of the 1979 murder of Etan Patz called on a psychologist to try to convince jurors they should disregard the defendant’s confessions to police, relatives and others about his role in the boy’s disappearance and death. Read More »

A Long Island college professor was beheaded inside her apartment Tuesday night by her son, who later committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train, Nassau County police said.

Police found the decapitated body of Patricia Ward, 66 years old, at about 8 p.m. Tuesday in front of her apartment building in the village of Farmingdale, said police Det. Lt. John Azzata. She lived there, in a second-floor apartment with her 35-year-old son, Derek Ward.

Ms. Ward, an assistant professor of language arts at Farmingdale State College, was last seen alive at about 4 p.m., police said. Patrick Calabria, a vice president at the college, said Ms. Ward worked with high school students to prepare them for college and had worked at the school for 28 years. Read More »

Homicide detectives made an arrest Monday in the cold case murders of two women found dead in Suffolk County in the 1990s.

John Bittrolff, 48 years old, of Manorville was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the women’s murders.

He was expected to be arraigned Tuesday at First District Court in Central Islip.

The two murders have been unsolved for more than two decades. Rita Tangredi, 31, was discovered nude, beaten and strangled in a wooded area off of Esplanade Drive in East Patchogue on Nov. 2, 1993. Read More »